Brian Johnston Poems

If you throw like a girl is it because you’re a girl
Or because the boy is more practiced?
And if you do practice, if you do care enough
If he throws a ball harder is it because you’re a girl
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by Lora Colon and Brian Johnston...............

I Woke Up
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For each gift that you make to a man's spirit,
Servant gift, not the kind that dishonor brings,
There's a peace that comes soft. (Can your ears hear it?)
And the heart of the man soon forgets its stings.
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Decaying wooden temples,
Frozen in place by garden paths
That tie them to the earth,
A virtual spider's web from the air.
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Although Hubble’s frozen eye may never dance
With light gathered from your visage,
My mind’s eye knows that you are there,
The constellation you inhabit
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Part 1

This is a true story about world’s end,
But don’t freak out for it was long ago
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There's a story I heard of a famous lost chord,

although why it was lost and just who did the losing,
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Oh when I was a child I loved Popeye cartoons,
Guess there’s no real accounting for any kid’s taste,
But you always knew spinach was up Popeye’s sleeve,
And that bullies like Brutus would soon be disgraced.
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I got to know her on Pacific Crest Trail's ridge
It was a water shed transition in my life.
With best friend Kim, my wife to be (or not to be) ,
Georgia and Kim already three weeks from trail head,
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I'm a Christian; you're a Christian; fine with me you don't think so,
You're a child of God that loves you, '…Out of Jail…, ' 'Advance to Go, '
Few would claim, 'We've got no limits! ' Boundaries? Of course, there are!
Earth (for now) God's children's playground, daylight honors just one star.
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